Gratitude

As a performer, many of us continuously work on honing our craft. Dance classes, workshops, training and conditioning, learning new tips on make up, costuming, etc. etc. etc.

And despite all the work that I and others have put into our careers, we need to remember that those careers don’t exist in a vacuum.

As a burlesque performer I have immense respect for the performers that paved the way before me. (And continue to do so.) From Berlin classics like Marlene Dietricht, veterans like Chris Owens and Tempest Storm, people like Dita Von Teese that helped bring burlesque back to the national stage, my first burlesque director Emily Doubilet who opened up my college campus to burlesque, current trail blazers like Bella Blue , Trixie Minx, Reverend Spooky Le Strange and Perle Noire who have helped make burlesque a household name and opened up possibilities to the rest of us that would never have been accessible otherwise. To all of you and so many more I say thank you.

Thank you for being pioneers. Thank you for doing what many did not think possible. Thank you for helping provide my place on the stage.

But most importantly, just Thank you.